Sisters: talk to each other, be connected and informed, form women's circles, share your stories, work together, and take risks. Together we are invincible.

At my age days dissolve like salt in water; the day's gone and I don't even know what I've done with the hours.

I need to tell a story. It's an obsession. Each story is a seed inside of me that starts to grow and grow, like a tumor, and I have to deal with it sooner or later.

Real soup is to the body what peace is to the soul.

What happens in the world affects me. Sometimes, that's part of the writing.

It's good for a writer to come from journalism because it gives you the tools. A journalist knows that he or she can lose the reader in six lines, so try to keep the attention of the reader. Also, you learn to research, and to conduct an interview - to extract from the person whatever you need from that person.

What is truer than truth? Answer: the story.